Quotes
William J. Wilson
Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda.
William J. Wilson
Our study clearly shows that employers would rather not hire a lot of workers from the inner city. They feel people from the inner city are not job-ready, that the kids have been poorly educated, that they can't read, they can't write, they can't speak.
William J. Wilson
One of the reasons I came to Harvard, after being in Chicago for so many years, is the critical mass of public intellectuals at Harvard.
William J. Wilson
No other major Western democracy has such a weak family support program.
William J. Wilson
Neighborhoods in which people are poor and working are entirely different from neighborhoods in which people are poor and jobless. Jobless neighborhoods are troubled neighborhood.
William J. Wilson
Many of the government's actions aggravate rather than alleviate the stresses on ordinary families.
William J. Wilson
Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support.
William J. Wilson
In the long term, we're going to have to have programs to ensure that our kids are ready to enter the private labor market.
William J. Wilson
In the first half of the 1990s, there was an effort to severely divide racial and ethnic groups.
William J. Wilson
If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system.